Pattern of Oculina patagonica occurrence along the Iberian Peninsula Coastline: A first step to understand the factors affecting its invasion dynamics
2013
Serrano, Eduard | Coma, Rafael | Ribes, Marta
40th CIESM Congress: The largest Forum on Mediterranean and Black Sea Research, 28 October - 1 November 2013, Marseille, France.-- 1 page, 1 figure
显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]The zooxanthellate coral Oculina patagonica can drive a compositional shift in Mediterranean shallow water benthic communities. We examined occurrence of the species on natural rocky reefs along the Iberian Peninsula coastline. Although the species was found on 70% of the explored locations, the distribution of the species exhibited a core area in the SE Iberian Peninsula, and progressively decreased to the northeast and to the southwest. This marked pattern of occurence in a coastline encompassing a 3°C temperature gradient provides an opportunity to determine the main factors that affect the O. patagonica invasive dynamics in the Mediterranean Sea
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